Aug 16

Political Conspiracy, Columbia Style

NICOLE CATÁ (Westchester, New York)
BEN THEODORE (Westchester, New York)
Nicole couldn’t help but notice that news about politics and the Ivy League have resurfaced on our humble blog, and she felt it necessary to point out that her future alma mater has its fair share of bizarre minutia.  While we here at BOTO usually sing rigorous, albeit [...] Read more »


Jul 21

Farms… in the sky?

DEVON GRANDY (Honolulu, Hawaii)
It’s been a while since Break Out The Oreos featured its normally-commonplace Ivy League coverage. It’s summer, so, in our minds, stories about the insanity of Ivy League students are attributed to their own deficiencies of character rather than their respective universities. It is important to note, however, that while the students [...] Read more »


Jun 5

Alumni Recognition, Tarsem Singh’s New Film, and the Return of Pedro Martinez

NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York)
In what is certainly the worthiest story to appear before the jump, BOTO heartily congratulates Columbia’s hottest alumnus in the current news cycle for wooing the requisite number of delegates to secure the Democratic nomination to become the next President of the United States, making history by becoming the first [...] Read more »


May 27

Annual Funeral for Research Universities and Thong Etiquette for Baseball Players

NICOLE CATÁ (New York, New York)
The second, newest half of the BOTO team is outraged.  In the midst of her mourning stage, she couldn’t help but remark that New York’s leading newspapers have failed to commemorate the apparent death of her beloved university in the form of an obituary.  After all, BOTO can only assume that Columbia is no [...] Read more »


Apr 11

Ivy League Round-Up

DEVON GRANDY (New York, New York)
We’re changing the format of our round-ups, particularly those pertaining to the Ivy League; rather than simply arranging the stories alphabetically by which school they pertain to, these posts will open with our favorite of the week’s stories. This will no doubt give the various Ivy communities an extra incentive [...] Read more »